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Begin Horace, avant diner (22  November  1819) Unable to identify specific title.
WG reads Horace extensively during 1793, including the Odes, Epistles, Ars poetica, Satires, Epodes, and Carmen seculare. He also reads Horace in several translations. WG's sale catalog lists several editions:
Horatius (3 copies) Edinb. Oxon. et Etonae, 1792-1812-16.
Horace's Odes, Lat. and Eng., transl. and enlarged by Sir T. Hawkins 1638.
Horace's Odes, Satyres, and Epistles, transl. by Alex. Brome 1666.
Horace, with Persius his Satyres, transl. by Barton Holyday 1652.

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• 22  November  1819